Informativeness and learning: Response to Gauthier and colleagues.

Investigating the effect of stock price informativeness on labor investment efficiency

The Managerial learning hypothesis suggests that managers can learn the stock price informativeness of their stock company stock, which can help improve their decision-making efficiency. According to Managerial learning hypothesis, the stock price informativeness can affect the Labor investment efficiency, since stock prices contain valuable information that managers have about the company's fu...

Institutional Ownership, Business Cycles and Earnings Informativeness of Income Smoothing: Evidence from Iran

Managers engage in income smoothing either to communicate private information about future earnings to investors (informativeness hypothesis) or to distort financial performance for opportunistic purposes (opportunism hypothesis). Business cycles and the monitoring role of institutional ownership may affect the earnings informativeness of income smoothing. The purpose of this research is to exa...

The Informativeness of Reported Earnings and Characteristics of the Audit Committee

An information usefulness approach to decision making points out that only the information is regarded as useful that will bring valuable messages to investors and lead to stock price adjustments. This study examines the effectiveness of audit committees in improving earnings quality and informativeness, particularly among family-owned firms. Earnings informativeness was measured through the re...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Learning to Express Visual Contrasts in the Production of Referring Expressions in Yucatec Maya

We examined rates of informativeness in the production of modifications in response to a visual contrast In a video description task with speakers of Yucatec Maya. We analyzed modifications of referring expressions on the part of a speaker, and we also examined the effect of overand underinformativeness on the listener’s comprehension. We found that prior experience with difficult comprehension...